Table 3 Comparing TBS and PCR diagnosis regarding species and types of malarial infection
From: Plasmodium malariae in the Colombian Amazon region: you don’t diagnose what you don’t suspect
Species detected by TBS | Species detected by PCR | Total n (%) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pf | Pv | Pm | Pv/Pf | Pv/Pm | Pf/Pm | Pv/Pf/Pm | Negative | ||
Pf | 14 | 21 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 92 (6.6) |
Pv | 11 | 220 | 30 | 20 | 188 | 3 | 20 | 5 | 497 (35.7) |
Pv/Pf | 0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 (0.86) |
Negative | 38 | 245 | 83 | 70 | 138 | 15 | 20 | 182 | 791 (56.8) |
Total n (%) | 63 (4.53) | 493 (35.42) | 117 (8.41) | 111 (7.97) | 340 (24.43) | 29 (2.08) | 52 (3.74) | 187 (13.43) | 1392 (100) |